News of imports

Argentina to scrap mobile phone import tariffs, cut tech taxes

13-05-2025 13:20 Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni says cheaper electronics will reduce crime, smuggling and lower prices for consumers.

GAS & ENERGY

Argentina looks to purchase winter LNG imports in early March

19-02-2025 09:00 Argentina's state-owned gas importer ENARSA will start buying liquefied natural gas in early March, ahead of the start of the southern hemisphere winter.

Climate Conundrum

Colombia's LNG imports threaten Gustavo Petro's climate push

15-01-2025 13:26 The Andean nation must bring in cargoes with a bigger carbon footprint as its own reserves dwindle and its president refuses to allow new drilling contracts.

ECONOMY – ANALYSIS

Milei lowers key import tariff to cool inflation

28-08-2024 10:35 Economy Minister Luis Caputo announces government will lower levy known as 'PAIS tax' from 17.5% to 7.5%.

CHINA-LATIN AMERICA

China’s US$8.5 billion in steel spurs Latin America toward tariffs

21-05-2024 14:48 One after another, Latin American nations are following in the footsteps of the United States and Europe by imposing prohibitive tariffs on Chinese imports — a strain in what’s been an otherwise cozy relationship.

CLEAR WAY FOR IMPORTS

Milei government opens up food imports in bid to curb price hikes

12-03-2024 12:38 Argentina’s government orders full opening of food imports in an attempt to curb an inflationary spike and introduce more “competitive” prices.

TRADE BALANCE

Argentina reverses trade deficit after peso devaluation

19-01-2024 16:50 Trading balance was reversed in December, after the strong devaluation of the peso.

TRADE WOES

Record trading debt: SMEs at risk of default

23-09-2023 05:13 Import debt has reached US$38 billion. Argentina’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs or PyMEs) face an increasing number of difficulties in paying suppliers due to restrictions to access the foreign exchange market.

by Ludmila Di Grande

Business

Spanish multinational Inditex exits Argentina by franchising Zara

20-07-2023 12:16 Spanish giant Inditex has decided to transfer the management of its brands' operations in Argentina and Uruguay mainly due to import restrictions.